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L. A. Snowstorm: Jan. Sixteen, Thirty Two

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Cloyd E. Louis

Description:

Footage of residential Los Angeles after a snowstorm in 1932. Opens with an Amateur Cinema League leader and a stop-motion animated title.


Guides Meet, The

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Edward A. Bollinger

Description:

"Film documenting a gathering of guides from all over Canada meeting at [Lake William], N.S. Shown are the many events and competitions in which the guides partake including canoe portage, fly casting, canoe tilting, log burling and canoe racing." Nova Scotia Archives.


Junkman’s Holiday

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Sidney Shurcliff


Orafo, L’ [The Goldsmith]

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Pietro Francisci

Description:

"a soggetto"/Fiction


Mediolanum

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Ubaldo Magnaghi

Description:

"documentario"/avant-garde documentary


Meshie, The Child of a Chimpanzee

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Henry Raven

Description:

"This film records, in the informal style of a home movie, some of a young chimpanzee's (Pan troglodytes) activities while raised in the Ravens' home. She plays with a hose, joins in games with the Raven children, manipulates tools, encounters snakes and mice, writes with a pencil, eats with a spoon, rides a tricycle, and feeds a human infant." University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.


Mayan Rites

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Adelaide Pearson

Description:

The film depicts Mayan rites in 1930's Guatemala along with intertitles describing the destruction of Mayan temples by conquerers and the performance of traditional ceremonies at the steps of churches.


Giornata nella casa popolare, Una [A Day in the People’s House] [working class]

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Piero Bottoni

Ubaldo Magnaghi


Entusiasmo [Enthusiasm]

Date produced: 1932

Filmmaker(s):

Francesco Pasinetti

Description:

"a soggetto lungh. norm."/feature-length fiction film


Sea Scout Training

Date produced: 1932

Description:

This film shows the 1st Norwich Sea Scouts as they prepare to represent Great Britain in the International Sea Scout Jamboree in Poland.


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